Androgynous model Andrej Pejic is often mistaken for a girl, but this week Barnes & Noble and Borders went so far as to censor his topless Dossier cover like they would a nudie mag, reports Jezebel. Why? Because although the stores' regulators understood that he was indeed a man, not a naked woman, they are concerned that some customers might be confused.

Androgynous model Andrej Pejic is often mistaken for a girl, but this week Barnes & Noble and Borders went so far as to censor his topless Dossier cover like they would a nudie mag, reports Jezebel. Why? Because although the stores' regulators understood that he was indeed a man, not a naked woman, they are concerned that some customers might be confused.

This sea of shit, my friends, is the reason why Carine Roitfeld will never be editor-in-chief of American Vogue. Click here for Pejic's full Dossier spread.

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Dossier Journal's latest issue, No. 7, hits newsstands this week. It's jam packed with contributions from writers including Dan Savage and Miranda July, photographers like Francesco Carrozzini, and Lachlan Bailey, and stylists like Kate Lanphear and Alastair McKimm. And that's just to name a few.
The girls behind the biannual arts and culture journal, editor Katherine Krause and creative director Skye Parrott (both of whom will be speaking at our May 9 "How I'm Making It" panel--wink, wink sign up here), have given us an exclusive look at the complete editorial featuring androgynous model Andrej Pejic, photographed by Collier Schorr. Take a look.

SAO PAULO--Outside the fashion world, folks aren't quite sure what to make of androgynous male model Andrej Pejic. Borders and Barnes & Nobles censored his topless cover for Dossier Journal, and men's mag FHM appallingly referred to him as a "thing" when listing the in-demand model as number 98 on their "Hot 100 Women" list.
Thankfully, within the fashion world, Pejic is accepted and in demand. He's served as muse to Jean Paul Gaultier, landed Marc by Marc Jacob's spring campaign, and been featured in numerous high fashion editorials. Last night, at Brazilian designer Lino Villaventura's spring 2012 show in Sao Paulo, he proved he is also a catwalk star. Pejic walked twice: first in menswear, and then he closed the show in women's evening wear--holding the packed room rapt as he vogued at the end of the runway. From my seat below the photographer's pit, I could see that Pejic was trembling a bit even as he nailed pose after pose at the end of the runway.
Watch Pejic do his thing.

It's not unusual for androgynous model Andrej Pejic to shock people with his gender-bending editorials, but this time he's done it on Twitter. The model-of-the-moment seems to have re-discovered "Maurica" and "her" hilarious viral YouTube videos (see below)--a parody dating profile of a transvestite from the LES looking for "a real white nigga," ideally from Westchester. Anyway, this weekend, Pejic tweeted,
Take Me to Westchester
to which a friend replied
But you went without me *sigh* RT @Andrej_Pejic: Take me to Westchester!
to which Pejic replied
@Remdelarem found a real white nigga
which, out of context at least, looks pretty bad.